Archive for April, 2009
Sales of foundation garments for the gentleman of the house as an extremely reliable economic indicator? Maybe not as silly as it sounds at first.
(0 Comments)“The desktop metaphor for personal computing? We’ve had that for 30 years. There’s nothing new to be done there.”
(0 Comments)Spun Sugar, Time, and Perspective
Thursday, April 9th, 2009My pal Gwenda has a discussion going over at her place about future desserts in fiction. I’m actually not that interested in future food, per se, but my interest was caught by a different statement of her about how she hates faux future shower technology. I don’t even disagree with that–I hate stuff that’s thrown [...]
QOTD: Trent Reznor
Thursday, April 9th, 2009“One of the biggest wake-up calls of my career was when I saw a record contract. I said, ‘Wait – you sell it for $18.98 and I make 80 cents? And I have to pay you back the money you lent me to make it and then you own it? Who the f**k made that [...]
The Assassins: One
Thursday, April 9th, 2009Hashish Poem
Swear off wine and drink from the cup of Haydar,
amber–scented, smarigdite green.
Look: it is offered to you
by a slender Turkish gazelle who
sways delicate as a willow bough.
As he prepares it, you might
compare it to the traces of
fine down on a blushing cheek
since even the slightest breeze
makes it move as if in the
coolness of a [...]
Stand By Me
Tuesday, April 7th, 2009Look, it’s poker night, you’re only getting a quick embedded video post.
However, it’s probably not what you think. If you stop watching before the first minute is over, you didn’t get it. If you watch through to the two minute mark, I guarantee that you’ll watch until the end, and you’ll be impressed.
For more information: [...]
Monday Night Miscellany
Monday, April 6th, 2009Like real-time strategy games? Like science fiction? How about a real-time strategy game where you (and your units) can time travel. Imagine sending future units back to fight alongside themselves against an enemy in the past… you thought keeping track of your units and tech tree was a headache, wait for the fourth dimension. Maybe [...]
We Are Living In Science Fiction (Again)
Sunday, April 5th, 2009When I was reading that story about the Canadian researched who uncovered the “GhostNet”–the gigantic system of compromised computers around the world, one that appears to be run out of China, and to target organizations of interest to China–my first thought was “Huh, that’s almost right out of Stross‘ Halting State.
Apparently Charlie thought so too, [...]
Scary Creatures From The World Of Science
Saturday, April 4th, 2009Reading a story about a colony of billions of amoeba, a colony so big that it was visible across a 40 foot area is pretty spooky.
Reading further in the article about:
the fact that these are “clonal” amoeba–all genetically identical copies,
the fact that these amoeba can apparently work together and function as a kind of hive [...]
Smart Things: Sterling on the death of editorial cartoons
Friday, April 3rd, 2009“Man, that's like seeing a stake put through the heart of the 20th century. Watching banks fail is a picnic compared to this.”
—Bruce Sterling in “You know newspapers are screwed when even the CARTOONISTS catch it“.
The Warrior’s Lament
Thursday, April 2nd, 2009Today I ordered a copy of Possibilities, an EP by Sierra Noble. I’d never heard of the ridiculously young Métis from Manitoba prior to today–which actually kind of surprises me–but as soon as I encountered her on the web today I knew I was going to buy the album.
What I encountered today (indirectly, via Penguin [...]
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